Re: Is the GPL all encompassing?

[amicus_curious]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> amicus_curious wrote:
> > There is nothing really worth stealing.
>
> A great deal of code is licensed under the GPL. I'm sure
> that somewhere in there is something that would be useful
> to someone who is writing a non-free program.
Can you conceive of any instance of that?  Now just writing a program is not 
the question, rather it is writing a program that you wish to distribute to 
others for a profit.  What would anyone ever steal that could meet those 
requirements?

> But be that as it may, and regardless of the quality of
> the code involved, those who copy and distribute GPLed
> code must honor the license.

Perhaps, but there is never likely to be any need for that.